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Speaker 1: This is a podcast about failure with me. Lolaberry, author, nutritionist,

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Speaker 1: and yoga teacher, join me as we get to know

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Speaker 1: these guests and learn about how their failures have ultimately

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Speaker 1: shaped their dreams. Welcome to Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the first episode of twenty twenty one. We

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Speaker 1: are bringing it in with Yog's extraordinary Duncan Pavironan, who

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Speaker 1: is the creator of ho Yoga, which stands for Hardevignasa.

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Speaker 1: It's where I did my teacher training, oh my goodness

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Speaker 1: a year and a half ago now, and it's the

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Speaker 1: online Yog's kind of like platform that I use, so

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Speaker 1: you can do like yoga classes, pilats intenso it's awesome anyway,

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Speaker 1: He's a great way to bring in the new year,

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Speaker 1: because if anything like me, I haven't totally clicked into

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Speaker 1: being healthy yet. I am still definitely eating a few

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Speaker 1: tredo's and not doing my daily yoga practice, which I

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Speaker 1: really need to get back on track. So I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: this episode inspires me to get back on track. I

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Speaker 1: hope it inspires you if you've fallen off track, which

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Speaker 1: is totally fine and normal by the way, and I

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Speaker 1: just want to let you know I've got something exciting

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Speaker 1: launching this Friday. We're going to be doing a Byron

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Speaker 1: check in, which is kind of like a short twenty

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Speaker 1: minute diary entry with me. But you can also DM

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Speaker 1: me during the week if you want me to cover anything,

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Speaker 1: so please feel free to send me any questions you'd

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Speaker 1: like answered. In the Friday check in. It'll just be

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Speaker 1: a little life update from Byron Bay with me, but

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Speaker 1: I can cover whatever topic you want, so yeah, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait for that. Enjoy Duncan. He is unreal. He

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Speaker 1: is a breath of fresh air. He's Canadian too, so

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Speaker 1: he's had this amazing childhood growing up in nature and

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Speaker 1: going on Canee adventures. I really hope you enjoy this chat.

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Speaker 1: We recorded it in Melbourne right before I moved to

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Speaker 1: Byron Bay. In a week or two later, he moved

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Speaker 1: ago in Melbourne, even though we both now live in

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Speaker 1: Byron Bay. Big love, Duncan. I'm so pumped to have

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Speaker 1: you here. I'm a huge fan. You know this already though,

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Speaker 1: if people listening, anybody, if you're a Victorian and you

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Speaker 1: do not know about hov yogurt. Then you're living under

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Speaker 1: a rock because I think you're phenomenal yogi everything, but

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Speaker 1: also just ray of sunshine. So I'm pumped for this podcast. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: So I love that introduction.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling super overwhelmed, and my ego is through the roof.

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Speaker 1: I did my intenso class of yours this morning, and

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Speaker 1: you wearing your American apparel bright Ferro sing. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: miss American apparel too.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I love for those of you who are listening.

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Speaker 3: American apparely used to have these like cotton jersey like

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Speaker 3: super stretchy neon colored tank tops, and they're just super vibrant,

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Speaker 3: super fun to wear, like they're brighten everyone's attitude when

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Speaker 2: You wearing it. Yeah, and they don't make them anymore.

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Speaker 1: I know. Okay, I'm completely digressing. Okay, I asked you

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Speaker 1: right forward, pest record, help me with your beautiful last name,

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Speaker 1: because I've practiced it like five times. Matt's got a version.

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Speaker 1: It's different to mine, so go for it.

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Speaker 2: That's okay. So it's got lots of vowels. It's parv

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Speaker 1: Oh, I like duncan parv ivan.

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Speaker 2: Pro nin ParvE Iro nin. Yes, So if you break

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Speaker 1: so I am going to start childhood kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I was wrapped to learn that your parents were

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Speaker 1: quite hippie. Yes, so we're talking like grew up off

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Speaker 1: as an adult looking back, you're like, that's cool. But

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Speaker 3: My parents are crazy. Why am I up at? What

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Speaker 3: Yeah, lookin like looking back, I'm very grateful for everything

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Speaker 1: Totally. I didn't so I knew a little bit about this,

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Speaker 1: training last year. Yeah, which was equal parts amazing and brutal,

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Speaker 1: online of yoga stuff. I'm gonna have links to ho

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Speaker 2: You did it all, right.

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Speaker 3: combination of polates and conditioning and interval training. Then there's

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Speaker 1: Well, you've nowed at my friend, It's something that I

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I get my laptop ready, I get like

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Speaker 2: Got to go for it. Let's ass stick deep.

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Speaker 1: Did you do a ten day solo adventure?

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Speaker 3: I did a ten day solo canoe trip all bout myself.

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Speaker 2: Able to control your mind.

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Speaker 3: Basically, so having mastery over your mind in a way

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Speaker 3: my biocom homework, and I was sitting at my desk

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00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,680
Speaker 3: and I was like, you know, someone asked like, if

438
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 3: you had to do one thing that was like really

439
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,239
Speaker 3: crazy right now, there are a few friends around if

440
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 3: you had to do one thing that was really crazy

441
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 3: right now, like it was absolutely crazy, but it was

442
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:21,879
Speaker 3: something you want to do, what would it be?

443
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,640
Speaker 2: And I remember answering, I totally drop out of BioMed

444
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 2: and I go to dance school. Yeah, And after I

445
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,400
Speaker 2: said that, I was like, shit, life's too short, let's

446
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 2: go for it. And I did.

447
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 3: I dropped out of BioMed, I said goodbye to the

448
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 3: full scholarship. It was really tough because you know, there's

449
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 3: something very prestigious about saying I'm in a BioMed program.

450
00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 3: I'm planning on becoming a doctor, Like I've got this

451
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 3: full scholarship, like the president of the university is my

452
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 3: mentor like that to me, I took a lot of

453
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 3: I built my identity around that. So to suddenly be like, oh,

454
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 3: I'm going to be a UNI drop out and go

455
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 3: an audition for this dance program downtown Toronto that I

456
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 3: might not even get was really like nerve racking. But

457
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 3: it was a big moment for me in my life

458
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: where its like I can do whatever I want, you know,

459
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 3: I just need to be clear on what it is

460
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 3: that I want to do with my life.

461
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 1: I'm back yourself. It's so cool to learn about the

462
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 1: biom in side of you because as been your having

463
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 1: been your student both in the teacher training and now

464
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: on have it makes sense you've got this love of

465
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,400
Speaker 1: anatomy as well, and this understanding of the human body,

466
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 1: and you've got a hunger to I feel like you'd

467
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: be someone that's constantly learning or reading or investigating something

468
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: or understanding something. But now it makes sense that you've

469
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: gone down that quite like studious past. Yes, so dance

470
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,439
Speaker 1: tell me about my.

471
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 2: Gosh, Laula.

472
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 3: So when I was thinking wow with that BioMed, I

473
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 3: was also dancing, like time I'd go to ballet classes

474
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 3: and you have, I started dance late. I started dancing

475
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 3: when I was sixteen for the most part, Like that's

476
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 3: when I seriously threw myself into it. So, you know,

477
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 3: I was never the most technical, technically savvy with regards

478
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 3: to my technique, never the most proficient because I started

479
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 3: so late that I was always pretty overwhelmed in each

480
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 3: dance class compared to all my other fellow dancers. So

481
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 3: when I auditioned for the dance program at Ryerson, you know,

482
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 3: I knew I wasn't going to be the best. You know,

483
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 3: I don't want to be self defeat us, but just

484
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 3: from like a technical standpoint and professional standpoint, I have

485
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 3: got the hours.

486
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 2: You know, I just knew I wasn't going to be

487
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 2: the best.

488
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 3: But I was like, you know what, I'm just going

489
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 3: to show up and do my absolute best, and Lola,

490
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 3: it was a bit of a shit show. Like I

491
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 3: was there, I was present, I did my best, but

492
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 3: there was sometimes where I was like, fuck, I'm way

493
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 3: over my head.

494
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: I love that feeling though, Yeah, it's a nice feeling. Yeah.

495
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 3: And so when I had been dancing part time in Guelph,

496
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 3: I had also started taking these modern dance classes, these

497
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 3: contemporary dance classes with a very famous Canadian choreographer, David Earl,

498
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 3: and I kind of knew that he was well known,

499
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 3: but didn't know how well known and acknowledged he was

500
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 3: in the dance community. And so when you dance for

501
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 3: the audition at Rrison University, you need to provide a

502
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 3: letter of reference, and mine was David Earl's and I

503
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 3: didn't know like that people really knew him, and so

504
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 3: he wrote me a letter of reference which was really beautiful.

505
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 3: And at the end of my audition, I sat down

506
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 3: and Nadia Potts, who's the director of the program, used

507
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 3: to be a former prima Valerie of the National Vallet

508
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 3: of Canada, like principal dancer for many many years, very

509
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 3: intense woman, you know. I sat down, they interviewed me.

510
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 3: She said, this letter of recommendation was absolutely beautiful. What

511
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 3: you've done in the audition is more than enough. We're

512
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 3: going to accept you into the program.

513
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that moment I was like like in my head,

514
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 2: I was like, really you want me?

515
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 3: And I was just like I was over the moon

516
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 3: because I had Remember I dropped out of the BioMed

517
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 3: I didn't really know what was going to happen, and

518
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 3: in that moment, I was like, leaving all that behind

519
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 3: was the right choice.

520
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: You took a leap of faith.

521
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

522
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard in an interview you would take class

523
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: really seriously. You'd be trying to work so hard on it.

524
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: And that same person, was it Nina you were just

525
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: talking about she click in your face and be like

526
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: where are you? Where are you because you're kind of

527
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: in your head?

528
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

529
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 3: So often Natia Potts, she is very confrontational dance teacher,

530
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 3: like she just got in your face about things, which

531
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 3: is we all loved her because she was just so

532
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 3: genuine and also she wanted you could tell she wanted

533
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 3: us to do the best.

534
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 2: But she's also intense. She was an intense person.

535
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she would snap her fingers in our face

536
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 3: and be like, where are you? What's the story you're telling?

537
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 3: I want you to be in your body. I want

538
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 3: you to see I want to see your whole body

539
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 3: expressing the story that you want to express.

540
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be robots. I want you

541
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 2: to be human beings. I want you to be in

542
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 2: your body.

543
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: So she instilled a lot of kind of I would

544
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 3: say movement philosophy and perspective into my life.

545
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: And I'm for sure that would have affected the way

546
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,959
Speaker 1: you teach, right, totally yoga teacher. Yeah, because we can.

547
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: You can often go and do a yoga class and

548
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: be so stuck in a thought or a story or

549
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: something's happened before. You're not and you're moving your body.

550
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: But sometimes you can do classes and not connect to it.

551
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: Totally can happen. And so like being in your body

552
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: is a mantra, is such a powerful simple thing to have.

553
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 2: Totally.

554
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: Okay, again, you're an over are achieva. So I've got

555
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: to ask about iron Man, Yes, and I have heard

556
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: a bit of iron Man's store, like I think you

557
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: push yourself right to the limits. I did, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.

558
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 3: So the first iron Man I did was the North

559
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 3: American Championships and in Quebec, which is you know, the

560
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 3: French events of Canada, so beautiful. Course it was Mont Tromplais,

561
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 3: so it's like a a ski ski region, so very hilly,

562
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: which was a bit brutal for the bike ride.

563
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, I went from.

564
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 3: I needed something intense after I dropped out of dance school,

565
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 3: so you know, I let that go. And that was

566
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 3: a huge again identity crisis because it was.

567
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: That same feeling. Was it like, this is not where

568
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: the fashion purpose thing?

569
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: Yeah?

570
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was almost too much passion that I was

571
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,239
Speaker 3: too emotional, My highs were too high, my lows were

572
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 3: too low, and it was too extreme. And I felt

573
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 3: really overwhelmed at the dance school and I just needed

574
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 3: I needed to get out.

575
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: I wasn't in a good place mentally.

576
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 3: So I went to work into retail Lululemon folding pants,

577
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 3: and I was like, I need something that's different and

578
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 3: that's going to challenge me and that's going to be intense.

579
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 3: So I heard about this iron Man triathlon. For those

580
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 3: of you who are listening, if you don't know what

581
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 3: it is, it's like a three point eight kilometers whim

582
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 3: one hundred eighty kilometer bike ride followed by a full

583
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 3: marathon as you do. And I had never swam more

584
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 3: than ten laps in the pool continuously, because you need

585
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 3: to swim ten laps to get your bronze cross, and

586
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 3: that's what I had.

587
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: And the swim is aggressive. I've done a mini a

588
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: tiny mini triathlon and people will like hit you under

589
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: the water.

590
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

591
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 3: I have a story around that, but that's so yeah.

592
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 3: I signed up for this iron Man and I'd never

593
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 3: sway more than ten laps, never ran more than ten kilometers,

594
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 3: never biked more than ten kilometers.

595
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 2: So it's like I'm just going to throw myself into

596
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 2: something that I don't.

597
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 3: Know really what I'm doing. And so I got a

598
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 3: coach trained the whole year, did the Iron Man. I

599
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 3: invited my parents to come to the Iron Man race,

600
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 3: my only my grandparents. It was really special because my

601
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 3: parents had just separated, so it's kind of the first

602
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 3: time the family coming together. Did the race and got

603
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 3: through the swim, got through the bike ride, got to

604
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 3: the run, and then I started feeling really weird, and

605
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is probably what it means

606
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 3: to be an iron Man, you know, like you go

607
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 3: through these really weird feelings in your body. And I

608
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 3: basically started puking my guts out. Couldn't really figure out

609
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 3: what's going on. My vitals got really low, and then

610
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 3: I was like walking and puking, and this paramedic saw

611
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 3: me by the medic tent, and I heard other arman

612
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 3: and trathletes say, don't let the medics get you. Whatever

613
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: you do, keep going because once they get you, they'll

614
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 3: probably not let you go. So this medics like, why

615
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 3: don't you come sit down? They're like walking beside me.

616
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 3: I was like, no, no, no, I'm FINEO no, I'm okay.

617
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 3: I keep walking.

618
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 2: And then they grabbed my forearm and they were like,

619
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: oh what do you just come down?

620
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 3: Just sit down for a few five minutes. That's how

621
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 3: you get they get you. And I was like, oh, okay, okay,

622
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 3: I'll sit down. They sat me down, they took my vitals.

623
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 3: They said that my vitals were really bad. They're gonna

624
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 3: have to take me off the course. They cut off

625
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 3: my time chip. They put me into this like you know,

626
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: like those white vans that you always see, like they

627
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 3: look like the abduct chip children like that, this big

628
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 3: white child abduction van. And they're like, okay, we need

629
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 3: to take you to the like the make shift hospital.

630
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 3: So they guided me into this white van and it's

631
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 3: filled with like try athletes who were all passed out

632
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 3: on all the like benches, and so I just go

633
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 3: and lay on like one empty bench. We drive to

634
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 3: the hotel, which has like a makeshift hospital in the basement,

635
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 3: which is like it's like I feel like I've been

636
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 3: in World War or something. I was like on some

637
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 3: of these athletes had had bike accidents, some of them

638
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 3: were just like unconscious because of like depletion. And I

639
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 3: stayed there for a bit and I just remember feeling

640
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 3: so disappointed in myself, like so much shame and failing

641
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 3: this thing that I had worked a whole year towards.

642
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 3: And my family were still waiting for me at the

643
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 3: finish line, like they didn't know what had happened, and

644
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 3: there's no way I could reach them. I didn't have

645
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 3: a phone or anything. So I remember leaving that little

646
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 3: makeshift hospital. I was fine and walked back to the

647
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 3: hotel room and just feeling so completely like, oh my gosh,

648
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 3: I'm a failure. You know, failed at BioMed, failed at

649
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 3: University of Dance, and yeah, I failed at this stupid

650
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 3: iron man that I signed myself up.

651
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 2: I felt so much.

652
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 3: Failure, and I was like I also felt failure for

653
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 3: like I had brought my family to this and I

654
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 3: couldn't even finish it for them, you know.

655
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: I would have been just so rapped that you even

656
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Speaker 1: started though. Yeah, your family sound pretty awesome.

657
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Speaker 2: They were so sweet.

658
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Speaker 1: So did you then go into another Iron Man after that?

659
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: Yeah? So the thing was after that, I felt like

660
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 3: such a failure. And you know, you know when you

661
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 3: go through those challenging moments in your life where you

662
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 3: just feel really vulnerable and you know, a bit overwhelmed.

663
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 3: And the next day I remember my mom's like, let's

664
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Speaker 3: just get out, like, let's just go do stuff. And

665
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: it was horrible because everyone was walking around with their

666
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 3: Iron Man like metals around their necks and I'm like,

667
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 3: oh fuck, this is so annoying.

668
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we did like this fun.

669
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 3: Little slide thing like down the mountain, and then I

670
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, this doesn't have to be

671
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 3: the end of the road for me. I can sign

672
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 3: up for another Iron Man, Like it doesn't have to

673
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: be over. Like somehow in my brain I had thought

674
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 3: it was over. But I'm like, it doesn't have to

675
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 3: be over. So I went back to the hotel room,

676
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 3: looked up when the next Iron Man was, which was

677
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: in Mexico in two months, and I'm like, okay, done,

678
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 3: I am going to Mexico in two months.

679
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: And I'm going to do another iron Man.

680
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: Amazing. Y did you do it? You did it, and

681
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: you finished it.

682
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 2: I finished it. I almost died.

683
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really really tough. I got sick again.

684
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: There's an interesting story around that too, but I won't

685
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 3: go into it. But yeah, it was really tough, but

686
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: I did finish it.

687
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: And so did you feel you know how you said

688
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: the first one that was really hard and you technically

689
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: didn't finish it, yep. And then when you went to

690
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: Mexico and did the second one, did you feel this

691
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: sense of accomplishment having failed the first one and done

692
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: the second one? Or because, like to me, that whole

693
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: story that you just told didn't sound like a failure

694
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Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Whereas

695
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: then you did go and do it, and you, like

696
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: you said, you were like, no, I can just do

697
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: the next one in two months time. Did you get

698
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: some sense of oh my god, I've achieved it after

699
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: doing the Mexican one?

700
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Speaker 2: Yes, you did, Like psychologically it was like I know

701
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 2: I can do this. Yeah, I know. I think you know.

702
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 3: Success all psychological right, totally meading what is successful and

703
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 3: what is a failure, and it's all about perspective. But

704
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 3: after finishing that, Iroman, it was just a nice thing

705
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 3: to be like, I know that I have the stamina

706
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 3: and the endurance to be able to do a course

707
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Speaker 3: like this.

708
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Speaker 1: Totally.

709
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't believe you did it.

710
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: After I've done a I think I've done one or

711
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: two half marathons, and I was like, I'm done, thank you.

712
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: That's enough for me. Okay, I have read a few

713
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: things about you, and I've so forgive me for I

714
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: don't know where half these quotes have come from because

715
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: we've done a lot of online interviews my friends.

716
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: Oh okay, cool.

717
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: Power living boys of Yoga. There's a lot of stuff

718
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: out there. So I love you've said something about self confidence.

719
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: It's about coming back to yourself, to be yourself and

720
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: all of yourself. I remember where I found this from

721
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: day one teacher training, who was in my own notebook

722
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: from day work. So you're obviously giving this ow pep talk.

723
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: So I like this concept of self confidence that it's

724
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: about coming back to who you are. It's being just

725
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: yourself truth for yourself, which is exactly how you live,

726
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: but then all of yourself. And I think you know

727
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: how you talked about teach training being a right of passage.

728
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: I think that, and I also access it through I

729
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: do a lot of therapy, so I get to access

730
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 1: all myself through facing myself and being uncomfortable with that basically.

731
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: But do you think, like is the magic in being

732
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: self confident? And this is going to sound like a

733
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: really psychological question, but is it about understanding not just

734
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: the truth of who you are, but all of who

735
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Speaker 1: you are? Like you were just touching on like you're

736
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: an overachiever, But that's kind of cool, I think too,

737
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And you can feel anxious

738
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: when you're excited about something, but that's also what makes

739
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: you you. So do you think self confidence doesn't come

740
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: down to just truth but also being and accepting and loving.

741
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 3: All of who you are?

742
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 2: Yeah? Totally, because you were that my friend. Yeah, thank you, Lola.

743
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 2: This is like a pep talk interview.

744
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.

745
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: That's very kind of you.

746
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people and this is

747
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: where I think Yog's is really cool.

748
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:08,919
Speaker 2: Yeah.

749
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: We can get that feeling every now and then of

750
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,879
Speaker 1: like this is my purpose or this is my truth. Yeah,

751
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: but when you really get to this stage of hang on,

752
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: this is who I am. This is the dark part

753
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: of who I am is what on the dark like

754
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, shadow bubblah. I actually

755
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: love all of it. Yeah, and I think yogs is

756
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: a way to access that.

757
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 2: Yes, do you think totally?

758
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 3: Well, that's whenever we talk about like the truth of

759
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 3: who we are, I kind of break it down into spiritually, psychologically,

760
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 3: and physically like that. So for the new forty Hour Emersion,

761
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 3: which is coming out in January, it's an online course

762
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 3: for all.

763
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Speaker 2: Of you listening.

764
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Speaker 1: You can do it exactly.

765
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 3: But we talk about who we are and the truth

766
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 3: of who we are, and I break it down into like,

767
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 3: who are what's the truth of us spiritually? What's the

768
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: truth of us psychologically? And what's the truth of us

769
00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 3: physiologically in the context of yoga and Yeah, to me,

770
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 3: the truth is acknowledging all that you are and the

771
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 3: light stuff and the dark stuff everything in between.

772
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Speaker 1: Do you where do you think people get most? I

773
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: know for me, I would get most stuck in psychology

774
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: until I had a therapist. I would have I reckon

775
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: that would have been like the spiritual stuff I can

776
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: access by getting onto the yoga mat. I think what

777
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: you're saying as well in the emergion, which I'll put

778
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: the links in the show notes so that people can

779
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: get involved. But what I'm trying to say is like,

780
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: do you think because you teach people right and you

781
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: are in my people to get outside their comfort zone

782
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: every single time? Yeah, they get on the mat with

783
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: you because you don't do things in halves. And I

784
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: love that, yep, But where do people everyone's got an

785
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: achilles heel is, like I would say, I'm guessing it's

786
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 1: the psychological stuff we get in our own way.

787
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's for you can't speak for everyone, but I

788
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 3: would say generally for most.

789
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 2: People, it's always psychological. And the tendency, as like.

790
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 3: In the context of yoga, us as humans, we have

791
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 3: this tendency to get really caught up in our self

792
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 3: centered narrative. It's not good or it's bad, it's just

793
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 3: our tendency. It's our tendency to get stuck in our ahamkara,

794
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 3: our ego, and we get really caught up in our

795
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 3: own personal story. And yoga is about waking us up

796
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 3: and being like, WHOA, there's more to your life than

797
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 3: the story, and how is this story impacting how you

798
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 3: see yourself in the world. So yeah, it's Yoga's about

799
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 3: stepping outside of the self centered narrative. And again I

800
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 3: want to emphasize the self centered narrative isn't good or bad.

801
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 3: It just is what it is, you know, And yoga

802
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 3: is about being aware of it and then having the

803
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 3: ability to step outside of it, which is easier said

804
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 3: than done sometimes because the mind is so strong and

805
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 3: very strongly conditioned. So that's why a lot of the

806
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 3: ancient yoga practices involve a lot of serious mental training,

807
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 3: because the mind is incredibly powerful in good ways and

808
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 3: in bad way, you know, like in both. So the

809
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: practice of yoga is conditioning the mind so that we're

810
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 3: not enslaved by it, but we know, we know how

811
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 3: it works, and we understand how it works.

812
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: How cool is that? Though? I think people that haven't

813
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: done yokes that might be listening to this might be like, oh,

814
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,919
Speaker 1: I thought it was touching my feet, Oh totally doing

815
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: a handstand or doing a pretzel bows. It's actually that,

816
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: to me is the tip of the iceberg, and then

817
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: you've got all this other amazing stuff underneath that you

818
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: get to experience if you open you know.

819
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 3: It's multifaceted, and I think that's why yoga is so popular,

820
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 3: because it has all these elements to it that are

821
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 3: attract people wherever they are. Like some people like some days,

822
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, I just want to wear cute little booty

823
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 3: shorts and groove to music and really focus on like

824
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 3: my physical aesthetic. Like, to me, there's nothing wrong with that,

825
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 3: you know, Like I like being a bit superficial, you know,

826
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 3: Like I have that tendency to be like, oh, these

827
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 3: are cute shorts, these are cute shoes. Like I'm totally

828
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 3: here in yoga to like make my I butt a

829
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 3: little perky, in my abs a little bit more toned,

830
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 3: Like I totally have that inclination sometimes, and I don't

831
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 3: think there's anything wrong with that yoga. I think the

832
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 3: most important thing we can do as yoga practitioners and

833
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 3: teachers is keep reminding ourselves that it's a multifaceted practice

834
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 3: and always acknowledge where it's come from and be respectful

835
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 3: of where it's come from, but also acknowledge that there's

836
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 3: many different styles of yoga, many different ways of practicing it,

837
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 3: And the most important thing we can do is meet

838
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 3: people where they're at. You know, and some people are

839
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 3: at the place of I want to practice yoga and

840
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 3: like cute little shorts and have an hour of being cute,

841
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 3: and I love that, you know. And some people are like,

842
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 3: I want to talk about philosophy for an hour, and

843
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: other people are like, I want to sit down and

844
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 3: meditate for an hour. And some people are like, I

845
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 3: want to do a kundalini cleansing a chakra. Some people

846
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 3: are like, I want to talk about the kneecapsule and

847
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 3: you know, ligaments and tendons and you know mobility conditioning.

848
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 3: It's that's what's so beautiful about yoga is it's it

849
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 3: truly is multifaceted, and it was philosophy that got you

850
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 3: in at the beginning. Ye totally like, I'm a philosophy

851
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 3: die hard, and that's what got me into your guys.

852
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 3: Not I like the physical component because I was like, oh,

853
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: this is fine, this is like dance gymnastics, like this

854
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 3: is cool.

855
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 2: But it was the philosophy that originally drew me in.

856
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: Me too, I love the philosophy and I love That's

857
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: why I think I fell for your dharma talks, because

858
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: you kind of will set us up and you'll be like, Okay,

859
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: we are going to be our body and work really

860
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: hard and work on alignment and loops of the body.

861
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: But you would share something about yourself and then you'd

862
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 1: bring it into some kind of philosophy that you'd studied,

863
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: and then right at the end, as we're getting into

864
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: like half Pigeon or something, you'd come back in with

865
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: the theme and it would feel like I was part

866
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: of a story.

867
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Speaker 3: You know.

868
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Speaker 1: I felt very not And philosophy is what gets me

869
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: in the door every day the week.

870
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 3: I love it.

871
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great to feel good, but it's also really

872
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: cool where you look at something through a different lens. Yep.

873
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: And that's where I love philosophy because it'd be like,

874
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: let's look at truth, Yeah, let's look at contentment, let's

875
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: look at setting intentions. And I'm like, I haven't thought

876
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: of doing it that way.

877
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

878
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: I have to ask you, Meghan Markle. You guys have

879
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: got the cutest little photos. So Dutch of.

880
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 2: Sussex, Yeah, the Duchess of Sussex.

881
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said Dutch didn't.

882
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay. Gender is fluid, it's a social construct.

883
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: So there's the cutest photos of you guys. Tell me

884
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: about it because didn't you do a shoot get you

885
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: involved as well? But you were her teacher before that.

886
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I was teaching at a studio in Toronto

887
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 3: called Moto Yoga, and Meghan lived around there, and she

888
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,359
Speaker 3: started coming to my classes. And you know people who

889
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 3: you just kind of like make like you know, you

890
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 3: just got you vibe with them right away. So I

891
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 3: felt that kind of connection with Max right away. And yeah,

892
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 3: she came to my classes. The classes were tough. There

893
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 3: were level three vinyasa classes, so advanced level classes in

894
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 3: a forty degree Celsius room. So it's a hot yoga,

895
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 3: hot vinyasa and then we blast music and she's like,

896
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 3: We've been on set for eighteen hours, I've had two

897
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 3: hours of sleep and I'm here and it's a level

898
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 3: three hot vinyasa at eight am on a Sunday morning.

899
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 2: And that class was so fun.

900
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: To teach because it was like all these super tight

901
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: a people. It was like, you know those classes that

902
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 3: have such a vibe to them. It was such a

903
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 3: fun class to teach, you know, it was really good.

904
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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's I met Meghan through there, and she'd

905
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 3: come to quite a few of my classes, and then

906
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 3: She mentioned that she was doing like a few yoga

907
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 3: photoshoots for some magazines and she wanted me to come

908
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 3: in and just help her with her alignment and form,

909
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 3: and so I did, and yeah, we just kind of

910
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 3: got to know each other that way.

911
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: She I found a quote she said about you. It's

912
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: really cute.

913
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to hear. Yeah, let's go for it.

914
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: He's so positive, and especially in the industry I work in,

915
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: it's so important to surround yourself with positive people. Basically,

916
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: you're a good egg.

917
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's how cool.

918
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I can't believe this is going so fast,

919
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't want to miss anything. I

920
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: have to mention this. I saw an interview did and

921
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: I was someone in the interview. They're like, Duncan, what's

922
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: your favorite quote? And you were like teeth in the wind?

923
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: And I was like, what's teeth in the wind? And

924
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: so I did it and I was like, oh my god,

925
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: you mean smiling, but I love it. Yeah, so that's

926
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 1: you smile hate.

927
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's from the canoe tripping camp that I grew

928
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 3: up from. Yeah, and their phrase was always teeth to

929
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 3: the wind. So whether you're smiling or Grima saying you

930
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 3: always face the wind and you bury your teeth.

931
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: I love it.

932
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was it was kind of our rally call.

933
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 3: Because a lot of the canoe trips that we did

934
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 3: as youth were really physically demanding and intense, and the

935
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 3: phrase was always teeth to the wind.

936
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 2: I love it.

937
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 3: Actually, Joe proposed to me and he he engraved it

938
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 3: on my ring, so it's on the inside of my ring.

939
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: We haven't even talked about Joe yet. But Joe was

940
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: the reason that you came to Australia. Yes, I was

941
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: seeing his sisters but also had a date x head

942
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: pizza dates.

943
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I was visiting my sisters for Christmas. Yeah, Matt,

944
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 3: Joe and Lennox had went for pizza and fell madly

945
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,760
Speaker 3: in love with him and then decided to move to Australia.

946
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: And I can testify I've had pizza with Joe also

947
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: because about Yeah, that was so good. Yeah, And I

948
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 1: bought my boyfriend Matt along and he was like, how

949
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: cool are they? And I was like, yeah, that's pretty cool.

950
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: Was the coolest.

951
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's very awesome human being. Okay, So I

952
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,760
Speaker 1: go through these phases where and this is we're winding

953
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: up now, so I'm so mindful of time. But where

954
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm going to pick like a Yogic philosophy

955
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: or Sanskrit word where I'm like, that's my jam for

956
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: this week. So and I've written down a few of

957
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: my faves like Satya truth, tell me if I'm saying

958
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: any of this wrong, by the way, but even like

959
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: prana life force and vitality, shrata faith yea is Koruna compassion.

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00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: Am I saying that, do you have a favorite where

961
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: you're like, this is my go to?

962
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, yeah, totally. Lagima, which is lightheartedness. So

963
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 3: they say when you start practicing yoga with enough dedication

964
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 3: and passion, eventually you'll accruse supernatural powers, and one of

965
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 3: them is known as lagima. Is this ability to you

966
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 3: become so late you can actually levitate. And I also

967
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 3: translate it as like this ability to be light hearted.

968
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: I love, I love it, I love it, and I

969
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: love as well. I always come back to just like

970
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: the simple act of setting a san culpa, like at

971
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: the beginning of my class, and I'm like, I might

972
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: just send one for my day.

973
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important.

974
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: Oh, totally. Okay, I want to talk quickly before we

975
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: end about hob Yoga. So this is coming out of

976
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: this We're recording this a little pinch early, but this

977
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: is coming out at the start of the year. You're

978
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: at first ever episode of.

979
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: Super Honored.

980
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: But there is so much stuff. So for people that

981
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: are brand new to hearing about Duncan and check out

982
00:45:58,239 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: hov Yoga.

983
00:45:59,040 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 3: Yep.

984
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: It's an online platform you are going to be offering

985
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: You're already offering immersions yep, teacher training yep.

986
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 3: And yeah, soh is an online platform. We have like

987
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 3: a that we have Hub Studio, which does all on

988
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 3: that that's what I says, that's what you do. It's

989
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 3: all the intensive and Yasa flow classes, philosophy classes and meditation.

990
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 3: And then we also have Hub Academy, which is our

991
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 3: teacher training and have stands for a heart of the Yasa.

992
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 3: So yeah, we have the forty hour immersion which I

993
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 3: do multiple of. It's all online. It's launching January twenty fifth.

994
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 3: Also you can sign up if you want. It's for

995
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 3: dedicated students who want to deepen their practice.

996
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: I love everything you've created and I have to say

997
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: Hoo has bought me so much joy during lockdown as well,

998
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: because because I really did miss and I felt like

999
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: I lost a little bit of myself when I couldn't

1000
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: practice anymore in a studio. And then when you just

1001
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: randomly wrote to me and you'll laugh for two weeks

1002
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: because I do a little list at the start of

1003
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: each week of what I mean, and I'm like, start

1004
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: doing duncan yoga, Start doing duncan. Yeah, And you wrote

1005
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: to me and you popped up in my Instagram and

1006
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: you were like, do you want to do it? And

1007
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, So anybody that hasn't please, I'm

1008
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: telling you try try this incredible online platform. Also, you

1009
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: can do it anywhere in the world at any time,

1010
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: in your laund room. If you've got blocks, great, if

1011
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: you don't, doesn't matter. I didn't mind without blocks today,

1012
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. So it's super accessible. And that's what

1013
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 1: I think your passion is to make yos accessible to all. Yah.

1014
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 3: I'm a bit like big believer and making yoga more accessible.

1015
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 3: And it's still a work in progress. But if any

1016
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 3: of you are listening to this and you've been financially

1017
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 3: impacted by COVID and you'd love to try Hub, but

1018
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 3: you can't afford it, just send me a message or

1019
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 3: a Lola message. We can get hooked up. And we

1020
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 3: have a COVID support program for a hub self. For

1021
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 3: people who are financially impacted. They can do hub for

1022
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Speaker 3: free on our COVID support program.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you're amazing. It has been a total

1024
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: honor they have you on podcast. I hope. I can't

1025
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: wait till we hang out again, and it sounds like

1026
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 1: it might be soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much, Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. That's a wrap on another episode of Fearlessly Failing.

1029
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: As always, thank you to our guests, and let's continue

1030
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Speaker 1: the conversation on Instagram. I'm at Yamo, lollaberry. This potty

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Speaker 1: my word for podcast is available on all streaming platforms.

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